WooWeekly #560: Move Orders Menu Item | Wise Payment Gateway | Bulk Assign Category

Hello there,

Welcome back to WooWeekly! I’m glad you’re here for another round of WooCommerce insights. Every week, I curate tips and tutorials for you to help you sharpen your WooCommerce skills.

Finally, summer has arrived — two months later than usual. The sea is beautiful, the water is clean, there are plenty of fish, plenty of heat (unfortunately), and plenty of people on the beach. The real breakthrough, though, is that my son has finally unlocked the next level: after four years of refusing to go near the sea, and up until just last week treating it as a nightmare, he’s now actually enjoying it.

On the business side, I finally got the go-ahead to book the Checkout Summit venue for April 2026. I’m calling them right after sending this newsletter, so expect the official announcement on Twitter or checkoutsummit.com later today — assuming I can get the final agreement over the phone. That also means I can move ahead with releasing early bird tickets at the beginning of September, and the site will be ready for launch, complete with call for speakers and sponsors (already quietly live in the navigation bar).

Other than that, it’s business as usual: not much client work, not many plugin sales, so whenever I have spare time I spend it writing or recording videos. AI — here I come to fight you!

Anyhow, here’s your weekly round-up of WooCommerce tips and tricks. Enjoy!

Rodolfo Melogli

WooCommerce Tips, Snippets & Tutorials

Here is a collection of posts to answer your biggest WooCommerce questions. Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced store owner, these resources will help you optimize your WooCommerce store and grow your online business.

WooCommerce: Move “Orders” to Top-Level Menu @ WP Admin
By default, WooCommerce keeps the “Orders” screen buried under its own top-level “WooCommerce” main menu item, alongside settings and other options. [Business Bloomer]
5 Order Confirmation Page Designs That Boost Sales (With Examples)
If you’re looking for some fantastic real-world examples of order confirmation page designs, you’re in the right place. [IconicWP]
WooCommerce: Send Payments to Different Bank Accounts
A member asked whether it’s possible to send payments for specific products to one bank account, and all other payments to a different one. [Business Bloomer]
Why Is There Still No Wise Payment Gateway for WooCommerce?
How is it possible that, in 2025, there is still no direct integration between WooCommerce and Wise? [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Completing Orders Without Triggering Hooks
When you mark an order as “completed” from the WooCommerce dashboard, various hooks are triggered. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Notify Admin of Abandoned Carts?
Woo stores cart session data only temporarily, and that too mostly for logged-in users. There is no built-in feature to notify administrators or trigger actions when a cart is left behind. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Order Meta with HPOS and API
If the current implementation uses functions like $order->update_meta_data(), would that still work seamlessly with HPOS? [Business Bloomer]

WooCommerce Masterclasses

Our private community of Woo professionals – the Business Bloomer Club – gives members lifetime access to (1) WooCommerce human support, (2) WooCommerce online courses, (3) WooCommerce webinar recordings, and (4) member-only resources. Twice a month, however, we run free live masterclasses open to everyone.

Missed a class? No worries — you can catch up anytime with our growing archive of 25+ recorded sessions packed with WooCommerce insights.

WooCommerce Videos

How to Copy Products Between WooCommerce Categories
Want to quickly copy products from one WooCommerce category into another without manually editing each item? In this short tutorial, I’ll show you exactly how to bulk add an additional category to your existing products. [YouTube/Business Bloomer]
I Tried WooPayments So You Don’t Have To (2 episodes)
In this playlist, I walk you through the entire WooPayments setup process — from installation and test payments to going live and managing transactions. As someone who was initially skeptical about WooPayments, I test everything firsthand so you don’t have to. [YouTube/Business Bloomer]
Setting Up Shoptimizer (3 episodes)
In the first 3 episodes of my Shoptimizer setup series, I kick things off by building the foundation of CheckoutSummit.com — a real, live event website — using the Shoptimizer WooCommerce theme by CommerceGurus. [YouTube/Business Bloomer]
Ditching a WooCommerce Plugin (3 episodes)
Tired of using bloated WooCommerce plugins when you only need a small part of their functionality? In this 3-part series, I walk you through the full process of replacing a WooCommerce plugin with clean, custom code — from planning to writing to testing. [YouTube/Business Bloomer]

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ICYMI: WooCommerce Insights

WooCommerce: Distraction-Free WP Admin for Store Management
I decided to create a simple way to “take over” the admin area for WooCommerce store managers — a cleaner, streamlined admin view focusing solely on WooCommerce essentials like orders, products, and customers. [Business Bloomer]
Can a Basic WooCommerce Site Succeed With Strong Branding?
A simple tech stack can still deliver results when the brand is powerful enough. Let’s unpack what we can learn from this and what it means for WooCommerce developers and store owners. [Business Bloomer]
How to Manage WooCommerce Product Image Sizes in 2025
If you’re looking for the perfect WooCommerce product image size, want to optimize your WooCommerce product images, or just want some product image tips, this guide is for you. [IconicWP]
WooCommerce: Add Optional Checkout Email CC: Field
A member asked how to let customers optionally enter a second email address at checkout—specifically if they want WooCommerce emails sent to someone else too. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce: Stripe Payment Form Not Showing?
A member reported that the Stripe payment form was not showing at checkout, regardless of which Stripe plugin they used. [Business Bloomer]
Add Phone Beside the Email @ WooCommerce Registration Form
A member asked whether it’s possible to add a phone input field next to the email field on the WooCommerce registration form. [Business Bloomer]
Determining Default Variation ID in WooCommerce
A developer explored an interesting challenge: finding the default variation ID from a variable product object using PHP. [Business Bloomer]
WooCommerce 9.9.3: Performance Gains or Wishful Thinking?
When WooCommerce 9.9 was announced back in May, the headline promised massive admin performance gains, especially for stores with large order volumes. [Business Bloomer]

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  • Rodolfo Melogli

    Author, WooCommerce expert and WordCamp speaker, Rodolfo has worked as an independent WooCommerce freelancer since 2011. His goal is to help entrepreneurs and developers overcome their WooCommerce nightmares. Rodolfo loves travelling, chasing tennis & soccer balls and, of course, wood fired oven pizza.

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